All About Love
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
What is the smallest, most ordinary thing someone has done for you lately that felt like love?
Where did you read this one, and did you find yourself reading it slowly or all in one sitting?
hooks insists love is something we do, not something that happens to us. Did that land as comforting or as a lot of pressure when you read it?
She writes about how many of us were taught that care and harm can come from the same hand. Was there a passage about childhood that you had to put the book down after?
The book treats friendship as a serious love, not a lesser one. Who came to mind for you while you read those pages?
hooks is very tender toward people who feel they have missed out on love. Did any part of the book feel like it was speaking kindly to a version of you from a few years ago?
She keeps returning to honesty as the hardest part of loving well. Reading her, did you find a place in your own life where you have been choosing comfort over truth, and did the book make that feel gentler to look at?
By the later chapters hooks widens love outward, past couples and families, toward strangers and communities. Did that widening feel earned to you, or did you want her to stay close to home?